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% IINITE STATE-$1 PA-ENT Q JosEPH .H. .RH OMBERG, OEDUIBUQ'UEIOWAQ 1HOE.

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Be it known that I, J OSEPH H. RHOMBERG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dubuque, in the county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention belongs in the class of agricultural implements, with morespecial referen'ceto hoes for the cultivation of gardens, and thethoughtis to provide a hoe that will readily cut up and destroy the Weeds andat the same time thoroughly pulverize the soil. With this thought inview, it consists in a blade attached to a handle and provided withcutting members of angular shape projecting out from one or both sidesof the blade at substantially right angles to the plane of the blade. p

The specification that follows, with the drawings accompanying the sameand forming a part thereof, will clearly describe and illustrate boththe mode of construction and the manner of using, whereby I accomplishthe ends sought.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the front of the blade.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view taken from the front of the blade.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the rear of the blade.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the blade taken from the rear. I

Fig. 5 is an end view.

Fig. v6 is a plan view of a portion of the blade showing how the cuttermembers may be formed when they are integral with the blade.

Fig. 7 is a plan view of a different shaped blade for a different useshowing the manner of attaching the cutter members where they are notmade integral with the blade, taken from the front side.

Fig. 8 is a plan view taken from the rear.

Fig. 9 is an end view, and

Fig. 10 is a view of another form of cutter member.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each of thefigures.

Having reference to the drawings, 2 designates one form of bladeattached to the handle 3. Where the cutter members are formed integralwith the blade lines 5, 6

and 7 as shown in Fig. 6, are cut in the. blade, and the parts 8 arebent out at sub-.

Specification of Letters Fatent. Patnte. kpplicationfiledNovember7,1917. seal-w... 201x700.

stantially right" anglesre th 'plane bruit bladefwhich form the cuttingmembers on the front of the blade and the other parts 10 are bent backand form the rear cutting members, leaving the openings If in the.

blade. When finished the cutting members will appear as shown inFig. 5and will be allel planesand substantially at right angles to the planeof'the blade.

In Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10 is shown a blade for use more especially incutting the weeds p All of the cutting inemhere 8' and 10 are preferablyin the same parand cultivating the soil between the rows of vegetablessuch as beets, carrots and the like where the rows are not far apart. Ina hoe for such use the blade of the hoe is preferably pointed at itscuttingedge and there are not necessarily any openings 4 in the bladebut a convenient mode of forming and setting the cutters 16 is bycutting slots 15 in the blade and' then securing in these slotstriangular plates, or cutters 16, shown in Fig. 10, which are preferablyformed by a single piece and secured in the slots 15 and project inabout'equal parts in front and rear of the blade, as shown in Fig. 9.

, In use the weeds will be cut and at the same time the soil thoroughlypulverized both by the cutting edge of the blade and by the cutters both'in the front and rear of the blade.

It will be seen that themanner of setting and securing the cutters inthe blades may be subject of numerous changes according to theconvenience and ideas of different manufacturers and also the shape ofthe cutters, without departing materially from the spirit of myinvention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is;-

1. A hoe comprising a handle; and a sub- I stantially flat blade, saidblade having horizontal sets of forwardly and rearwardly extendingvertical triangular cutters, the for wardly extending set of triangularcutters having their upper edges horizontal and their lower edgesoblique, and the rearwardly extending set of triangular cutters havingtheir upper edges oblique and lower edges horizontal.

2. A hoe comprising a handle; and asubtershaving upper oblique edges andlower 10 1 stantially 'fiat blade, said blade having horizontal edges.

oblique slits and horizontal slits which ex- 7 In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature tend in ogposfitehdirgotions'and 'join tile opin thepresence of two Witnesses.

osite en s o t e o i ue sits w ere tringular cutters arefor med, saidcutt'ezs be-" JOSEPH RHOMBERG ing bent forwardly and rearwardly, thefor- Witnesses: 7 ard cutters having upper horizontal edges M. M. CADY,

and lower oblique edges, .and therear cut- E. H. WIL GING.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Y Washington, D. 13" I i

